Nil

Nil is a word commonly used to mean not in list or zero; it is one of several names for the number 0.

Nil may also refer to:

Given names

August Fieldorf "Nil"(1895–1953), Polish Brigadier General

Nil Abarbanel (born 1987), Israeli footballer

Nil Burak (born 1948), Turkish Cypriot pop singer and actress

Nil de Oliveira (born 1986), Brazilian-Swedish athlete and short distance runner

Nil Eryılmaz (born 1995), Turkish female ice hockey player

Nil Filatov (1847 or 1847–1902), Russian paediatric

Nil Hilevich (born 1931), Belarusian poet

Nil Izvorov (1823–1905), Bulgarian priest

Nil Karaibrahimgil (born 1976), Turkish singer and songwriter

Nil Köksal, Turkish-born Canadian television journalist

Nil Lushchak (born 1973), Ukrainian bishop

Nil Maizar (born 1970), Indonesian national football team manager

Nil Montserrat (born 1988), Spanish racing driver

Surname

Lon Nil (born 1970), brother of Cambodian Prime Minister Lon Nol

Maxi Nil (born 1981), Greek singer,

Places

Nil, Iran, a village in Kurdistan Province, Iran

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Nil (band)

Nil (stylized as nil) is a Japanese rock band that was formed in 1998 by Tetsu Takano (ex-Malice Mizer, ex-Mega8Ball, ex-Zigzo, The JuneJulyAugust), Hiroyuki Kashimoto and Kyoshi Moro. The original intent of Nil was to become Tetsu's solo unit and even though it has become a full fledged band, all lyrics and songwriting has been solely handled by Tetsu. The band only lasted briefly during its first incarnation and went on hiatus by the end of 1998. It would not resurface until the middle of 2002 when they would start recording again and Tetsu formed his own record label, Afro Skull Records. The name "Nil" literally means "absolute zero" and as an acronym refers to "native irreligious language".

In 2005, Nil had many setbacks which resulted in the departure of founding members Kashimoto and Moro who both left the band on January 10, 2005, the last day of the "Touring Inferno" tour. Eventually replacement drummer Furuton (ex-Oblivion Dust, ex-Mega8Ball support) left the band after only 6 months. By the end of 2005 Nil finally settled down with the addition of Masaru Kobayashi (ex-Soy Sauce Sonix, ex-Sads, The Cro-Magnons) on bass and Kazama Hiroyuki (ex-Fantastic Designs) on drums.

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NIL (programming language)

NIL was a 32-bit implementation of Lisp developed at MIT and intended to be the successor to Maclisp. NIL stood for "New Implementation of LISP", and was in part a response to DECs VAX computer. The project was headed by Jon L White, with a stated goal of maintaining compatibility with MacLisp whilst fixing many of the problems with the language.

History

The Lisp language was invented in 1958 by John McCarthy while he was at MIT. From its inception, Lisp was closely connected with the artificial intelligence research community, especially on PDP-10 systems. Lisp was used as the implementation of the programming language Micro Planner that was the foundation for the famous AI system SHRDLU. Lisp, in particular Maclisp (so called because it originated at MIT's project MAC) was also used to implement the Macsyma computer algebra system. In the 1970s, as AI research spawned commercial offshoots, the performance of existing Lisp systems became a growing issue.

Partly because of garbage collection (Lisp would use stop-and-copy garbage collection of its single heap for memory allocation) and partly because of its representation of internal structures, Lisp became difficult to run on the memory-limited stock hardware of the day. This led to the creation of LISP machines: dedicated hardware for running Lisp environments and programs. An alternative was to use the more powerful commodity hardware which was becoming available, in particular the DEC VAX.

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Shimmer

Shimmer may refer to:

Shimmer (play), a 1988 play by John O'Keefe

Shimmer (comics), a DC Comics super-villain

Shimmer (novel), by Eric Barnes

Shimmer Magazine, or Shimmerzine, a speculative fiction magazine

"Shimmer" (song), a 1998 song by the band Fuel

Shimmer (Bitter Grace album), 2005

Shimmer (Sal Paradise album), 1985

Shimmer (Surgery album), 1994

Shimmer, a genie with pink hair in Shimmer and Shine

Shimmer Women Athletes, a female wrestling company

"Shimmer", an episode of the first season of the TV series Smallville

New Shimmer, a Saturday Night Live parody product notable for being "a floor wax and a dessert topping"

Shimmer (Surgery album)

Shimmer is the second album by Surgery, released on April 5, 1994 through Atlantic Records.

Track listing

All songs written and composed by Surgery.

Personnel

Scott Kleber – guitar

John Lachapelle – bass guitar

John Leamy – drums

Sean McDonnell – vocals

Billy Anderson – recording

Joe Barresi – mixing, recording

GGGarth – production, mixing

Allen Hori – art direction

Michael Lavine – photography

Stephen Marcussen – mastering

Brian Scheuble – mixing

Surgery – production

Valerie Wagner – art direction, design

References

External links

Shimmer at Discogs (list of releases)

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Shimmer (Sal Paradise album)

Shimmer is a 1985 album by Sal Paradise, released on the Arista record label (206 156-620). The music broke new musical ground in the 'World' category by fusing mostly Moroccan beats with Moog synthesizers and strong English church bell-like choruses. The music became famous in Europe when it was taken up by Eckhart Schmidt as the soundtrack to his film Die Story, which was the second biggest grossing film in Germany that year.